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Freshly minted coins are as anonymous as the public IP that claimed them. If you mine behind TOR (even if you're part of a pool), your new coins are anonymous.
by pygy_ 14y ago
Freshly minted coins are as anonymous as the public IP that claimed them. If you mine behind TOR (even if you're part of a pool), your new coins are anonymous.
The same goes for the transaction fees.
- dllthomas 14y agoIs anonymity in the minting of coins the piece of this anyone cares about?
- pygy_ 14y agoMy point is that it is possible to get and spend bitcoins anonymously, by trading electricity for coins. This: > Bitcoin does not have anonymity; ... is thus not true. If you purchase your coins through an exchange, it becomes traceable, off course.
- shardling 14y agoBut since the end game of bitcoin is that basically no new coins will be mined, how does that matter?
- dllthomas 14y agoYou can still get coins to a fresh account through transaction fees.
- dllthomas 14y agoAnd I reiterate, that's not what people care about. We don't, primarily, target drug users; we target dealers. You can't receive and then spend bitcoins without there being patterns in the network that should be worrisome for anyone wishing to retain strict anonymity. This can be attacked further through policy (merchants must register accounts and can only deal with registered accounts), &c, to undermine flow of anonymous value. From an anonymity standpoint it is certainly a better situation than using your mastercard (or even someone else's mastercard, maybe) but it's not as anonymous as physical transfer of value with no record.